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How everything became war and the military became everything : tales from the Pentagon / Rosa Brooks.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: viii, 438 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781476777863
- 1476777861
- Strategic culture -- United States
- War (International law) -- Philosophy
- Armed Forces -- Operations other than war
- Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States
- Just war doctrine
- National security -- United States
- Militarism -- United States
- United States -- Military policy
- United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- United States -- History, Military -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
- UA23 .B7837 2016
Contents:
Tremors -- The new American way of war -- Pirates! -- Wanna go to Gitmo? -- Lawyers with guns -- The full spectrum -- The secret war -- Future warfare -- What's an army for? -- What we've made it -- How we got here -- Putting war into a box -- Taming war -- An optimistic enterprise -- Making war -- Making the state -- Un-making sovereignty -- Making the military -- An age of uncertainty -- Counting the costs -- Car bombs and radioactive sushi -- War everywhere, law nowhere? -- Institutional costs -- Managing war's paradoxes.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index.
Tremors -- The new American way of war -- Pirates! -- Wanna go to Gitmo? -- Lawyers with guns -- The full spectrum -- The secret war -- Future warfare -- What's an army for? -- What we've made it -- How we got here -- Putting war into a box -- Taming war -- An optimistic enterprise -- Making war -- Making the state -- Un-making sovereignty -- Making the military -- An age of uncertainty -- Counting the costs -- Car bombs and radioactive sushi -- War everywhere, law nowhere? -- Institutional costs -- Managing war's paradoxes.
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